Collar.



C. H. TURNER.

COLLAR.

APPLICATION IILBD AUG.8,1910,

Patented May 16, 1911 I Ml awue/wbo o 0. )7 Dana?" CHARLES H. TURNER, 0F BEL'VIDERE, ILLINOIS.

COLLAR.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented'May 16, 1911- Application filed August 8, 1910. Serial No. 576,217.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLus H. Truman, a citizen of the United States, residing at llelvidere, in the county of Boone and. State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to apparel collars, cuffs, and similar articles, and has for its object to provide improved means for buttoning a collar or the like.

It is known that the edges of an ordinary buttonhole in collars become broken or torn after very little wear, caused by being stare-bed too stillly, whereby the tmttonholes break under the strain incident to buttoi'iing the collar. My invention is designed to remedy this defect, by the provision of a pliable or flexible attachmentloeated at the button holes in the collar. which will enable the collar to be buttoned quickly and easily. The attachment has the further advantage that it will give more it'reedou'i to the collar, and ease to the wearer, as it will not bind around the neck or under the chin, the connection to the shirt allowing a certain amount of movement so that the collar will accommmlate itself to the wearer. By the means indicated the durability of the collar 1 is greatly increased, and the annoyance and difficulty incident to buttoning a stiff collar onto a shirt will be avoided.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure l is a perspective view of the col lar in open position; Fig. is a section on the line 2-42 of Fig. l Fig. ii is a. perspectiveview of the collar in closed position.

Jl ferring specifically to the drawings, (3 indicates a collar of ordinary or desired construeliion. The illustration shows a turndown collar, but the invention may be used on other styles, as desired.

The butt onholes at the usual places in the collar-band are indicated at 7. and they are modified, as compared to ordinary buttonholes, in the respect that they are made considerably larger, and preferably circular or with an enlarged eye at one end, the eye or opening being larger than the head of an ordinary collar-button, so that the head is free to pass through said eye or opening freely and without engagement with the edges thereof.

()n the inner side of the collar-band, adjacent the said buttonholes, tabs or small flaps are placed. Those adjacent the front buttonholes are indicated at 8, and are at tached at one end only. The attached end of the tab is preferably inserted in a slit at 9 in the inner ply of the collar-band, so that the end is located between the inner and outer plies, and is thus covered on both sides,

the collar to be buttoned without annoyance and increasing the durability thereof, by reason of the pliability of the tabs and also by reason of the fact that they may be made of superior material.

In applying the collar to a shirt, the buttons are first placed in the neck-band of the shirt, as usual, and the back button is then engaged in the buttonholc 13. The front ends are then drawn together and the front button engaged in the buttonholes 11 The head of the buttonhole will pass freely through the eyes 7 in the necloband, having only sullicient engagement therewith to prevent the ends of the band from slipping out of proper position. The buttonholes in the tabs 8 serve to receive the strain on the collar, and also receive the wear incident to bulioning and unbuttoning the collar. The flexibility of the tabs permits a certain amount of play to the collar, whereby it can adjust itself to the neck of the wearer or to the particular style of neckwear used. This avoids binding or chafing the neck, without in any manner impairing the appearance of the collar. When the collar is buttoned the tabs are concealed, being located behind the ends of the collar-band, where they are crossed. Silk is the material preferably ased for the M735 or attacj ments, but rubber 01* any other material which will 110i: become 5 3% when the collar is starched may be substituted;

- I claim:

A 'coilar thelike having enlarged bu't- "wm feeeiving eyes, through which a button head Wifi pass freely, and also provided with buttoziizlg tabs adjacent said eyes, said tabs having buttmiholes, and being made; wh glly of pliable material incapable of stiflemng by,

starch, i

. In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses. i

. CHAS. TURNER. iVitnesses:

NICHOLAS W. MAY, ROBERT C. MITCHELL; 

